>I'ld hesitate, since somebody could read that as a "MemoryForYouToNum" <g>.
>I was thinking more about MemU32ToNum:
>Seen from pure hardware, MemU4ToNum seems to be the shortest and also safe for future developments. On the OS level there are sometimes operations/pointers 32 <= x <= 64, which AFAIK not always fall on a byte border, but these tend to *stay* pointers, so no need to transform.

You are right.

MemU4toNum is good.

Now i use

MemToWord,MemToDWord,MemToInt,MemToQWord,MemToBigInt

because i known that VFP have "N" variables only,
and then Num don't get information to me.
The suffix word give me the mem size.

Of course, this is only a personal preference.

regards

Fabio